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Anthropology on trial: exploring the laws of anthropological expertise [PDF]
This paper explores the role of anthropological expertise in shaping the outcome of legal proceedings under conditions of cultural diversity. Taking the state-driven land-restitution process in postapartheid South Africa as its point of reference, the ...
Zenker, Olaf
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Questioning the role played by jurists – mainly French – in the history of anthropology during the Renaissance, this article highlights the way in which humanist jurists found themselves, through their philological and historical work, at the heart of an
Géraldine Cazals
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This article investigates the bureaucratisation of Islam in Brunei and its interlinkages with socio-cultural changes. It elucidates how realisations of state-enforced Islamic orthodoxy and purification produce locally unique meanings, while ...
Dominik M. Müller
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Denda Adat pada Tradisi Pepadun Masyarakat Lampung dalam Perspektif Hukum Islam
The people of Lampung, who are predominantly moslem, have a form of implementing customary fines known as dau. There is the term cepala or cepalau, which means 'violation of customary law' in Lampung, which is generally based on Islamic law.
Tri Wahyuni +2 more
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Ethnographic Advocacy Against the Death Penalty [PDF]
This article develops the concept of “ethnographic advocacy” to make sense of the humanizing, open‐ended knowledge practices involved in the defense of criminal defendants charged with capital murder.
Blume +26 more
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ABSTRACT Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well‐established, evidence‐based treatment for common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders, and obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). However, treatment outcomes vary widely, and a substantial proportion of patients do not achieve sufficient improvement.
Julia Bäckman +41 more
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Legal Studies and Social Anthropology on an equal footing. An Introduction
Legal Studies and Social Anthropology on an equal footing.
Ignasi Terradas Saborit
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ABSTRACT Evidence on developmental milestones in children with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) under the age of five is scarce. This multisite cross‐sectional study described developmental status and examined factors associated with milestone attainment in 143 children aged 0–66 months from a pediatric AMC Registry.
Ahlam Zidan +13 more
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Little Black Boxes: Legal Anthropology and the Politics of Autonomy in Tort Law [PDF]
[Excerpt] Law’s interdisciplinary turn toward social sciences suggests a growing realization that jurists may not be independently equipped to explain the world in and upon which they act.
Tejani, Riaz
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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